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This argument is highly speculative and very likely misleading too. Common sense would say that the best way to hit a target is to be aiming at it. If you're ai
by cryptica 7y ago
This argument is highly speculative and very likely misleading too. Common sense would say that the best way to hit a target is to be aiming at it.
If you're aiming all over the place, it's possible that you could end up with a few bullseyes but how many shots have you wasted?
How many bullseyes would have been achieved if you had been aiming right at the target?
My point still stands that it's a wasteful way to reach those targets.
- p_l 7y agoBy concentrating you risk getting over focused and boxed into some small branch. Having many, many directions with cooperation across them means you get significant interdisciplinary benefits, from just "someone looked at it the other way" to (quite common!) "we need some fancy material, fortunately space R&D already prototyped one that fits!"
- rndgermandude 7y agoYour premise is flawed: you assume we already know what the targets are. Quite often in science we do not know the targets beforehand. Quite often we just happen to study/research something and out falls something else with very practical use (after minor adjustments and a little bit of out of the box thinking) we did not imagine was there.